I want to read about this mythical creature that plays a prominent part of the story.
Weird fact but after playing WoW for 15 years and owning so many epic mounts, my handy swift griffin was still my fav. Loved going and questing around aerie peak lol
by oh_sneezeus
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If you like high fantasy, you’re in luck. Artist and sometimes novelist **Larry Dixon** absolutely loves gryphons (you can see his drawings of them over at his official website GryphonKing.com; ETA: apparently down again at the moment, but some of it is in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and many were incorporated into the DAW Books editions of his co-novels which have illustrations), and is the husband of **Mercedes Lackey**, who’s incorporated them significantly into her long-running Valdemar universe.
The Mage Wars trilogy they co-wrote starting with _The Black Gryphon_ is a millennia-ago prequel to the main timeline, starring a gryphon character as lead in a sprawling cast. It’s been a while since I read it, but IIRC there was also aerial combat against a twisted version of the gryphons created by an evil mage. The Mage Winds trilogy in the main timeline, starting with _Winds of Fate_, has prominent gryphon friends of one of the leads as major supporting characters. The new Kelvren’s Saga trilogy which I haven’t read, but is the latest in the main timeline, starts with _Gryphon in Light_ and stars a gryphon joining an expedition, who’d previously had some sort of heroic supporting role in the previous Owl Trilogy aka Darian’s Tale subseries.
The late **Diana Wynne Jones**’ satirical Derkholm duology, starting with _The Dark Lord of Derkholm_ in a sort of fantasy world tourist industry where customers LARP as tropey adventurers, is centred around the family of a (human) man who plays the evil overlord wizard, and several of his children are griffins and prominent supporting characters. Some get more of a spotlight in the sequel _Year of the Griffin_, which I don’t think I’ve read.
I haven’t read these, but apparently the 1st novel was a finalist for Australia’s Aurealis Award for sf/fantasy and they’re available in ebook reprints: The Fallen Moon YA trilogy by **K. J. Taylor**, starting with _The Dark Griffin_. Blurb looks like standard medieval-ish epic fantasy rebellion/political maneuvering. MC has a griffin companion.
ETA: apparently there’s also The Griffin Mage Trilogy by **Rachel Neumeier**, starting with _Lord of the Changing Winds_. Premise is apparently that wild griffins start start mysteriously showing up at a desert village, rulers of the kingdom start trying to use them for war.
Hope this helps!